Russian troops said they would seize Mariupol steel plants which were the last major fortress of resistance in the city surrounded on Thursday after Ukraine proposed talks about the evacuation of troops and civilians there.
Mariupol will be the biggest city confiscated by Russia since attacking Ukraine eight weeks ago in an attack that has taken longer than expected some military analysts, seen more than five million people fled abroad and turned the city and city for debris .
Before lunch, or after lunch, Azovstal will be completely under the control of the Russian Federation forces,” Ramzan Kadyrov, the Head of Russian Republic of Russia Chechnya, whose troops have been fighting in Ukraine, saying about steel mills.
Some dozen civilians managed to abandon the southeast port which was strategically important on Wednesday in a small bus convoy, according to Reuters witnesses, fled the most fierce war battle.
The Ukrainian Marine Commander, Serhiy Voln, told Wednesday fighters in steel works may not last longer. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said it was estimated that 1,000 civilians also took refuge there.
Ukraine is ready for “special negotiation round” unconditional “to save our people, (far to right) azov (battalion), military, civilians, children, who live and injured,” Mykhailo Podolyak Negotiator tweeted.
Fighters remain hiding in the factory and ignoring the ultimatum by Russia to give up. David Arachhamia, second negotiator, said in an online post that he and Podolya were in constant contact with Ukrainian forces in the city.
Today, in a conversation with city defenders, a proposal was submitted to hold direct negotiations, at the location, on the evacuation of our military garrison,” he said. “For our part, we are ready to come to such negotiations anytime as soon as we receive confirmation from Russia.”
Ukraine said that it had so far resisted the attack by thousands of Russian troops trying to advance what was called Kyiv Battle Donbas, a new campaign to win two East Provinces Moscow claimed on behalf of separatists.
Russian forces had carried out attacks on dozens of military facilities in East Ukraine and had shot the Ukrainian MI-8 helicopter near Koroviy Yar Village, the defense ministry said.
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This truly unique weapon will … provide food to think about for those who, in the heat of aggressive rhetoric hustle and bustle, try to threaten our country,” said President Vladimir Putin.
Russia called the attack “special military operation” for demilitarization and “immersed” Ukraine. Kyiv and his Western ally refused it as a false pretext.
The United States on Wednesday imposed restrictions dozens of people and entities, including commercial banks and virtual currency mining companies, targeting avoidance of existing rules.
Mariupol, so a prosperous city of 400,000, is now a desert where the bodies are located on the streets and Russia hit Azovstal steel plants with Bunker-Buster bombs, the government said in Kyiv.
The large black cloud of smoke billowed from there on Wednesday as Evakare queued to take a bus.
Retired Tamara, 64, said he would live with his sister in Zaporizhzhia. He left the city with her husband, daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk accused Russian forces for failing to observe a local ceasefire agreement for quite a long time to allow a large number of people to leave.